Irene Lashes New York Area

People gathered in Hudson River Park in Manhattan at the end of the day after Hurricane Irene swept through the area.

A woman carried her daughter across a flooded street in Hoboken, N.J. In addition to flooding throughout the state, more than half a million residents were without power on Sunday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Residents of Long Beach viewed the rough surf on the south shore of Long Island Sunday afternoon.

Members of the Dix Hills Fire Dept. removed a tree blocking Vanderbilt Parkway on Long Island.

 

A restaurant in Rye, N.Y., was flooded with two feet of water.

West 231st St. in Riverdale was a blanketed by branches and leaves.

Natasha Devine sat on her stoop with her mother Sharon Devine and son Anthony Jackson waiting for the waters to recede in Rosedale, Queens.

Children cleaned up the street in their Queens neighborhood on Sunday.

 

Partially submerged cars on Saybrook Street in Staten Island.

 

Ida Tserlina of Staten Island checked her mail after the storm had passed. Flooding was widespread in Staten Island.

Storm evacuees spent the night at a shelter set up by the city in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.

City workers cleared fallen trees from a street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Low-lying areas in Manhattan were flooded, including along the East River near the Williamsburg Bridge.

 

Trees throughout the boroughs were casualties of the storm. Bicyclists navigated past a fallen tree in East River Park on the Lower East Side.

 

 

By the afternoon, the rain had ended and residents ventured out to the pier in Hudson River Park on the west side of Manhattan.

 

Irene pushed into the New York area on Sunday morning, unleashing rain and wind on a city girded for the worst. Rising water lapped over the seawall at Battery Park in Lower Manhattan.